leewatch.info Archives - 11 March 2012, Sunday

More promises, but little actual progress on the long-pending 1965 movie project . Yahoo News : Production for the widely-anticipated film about former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is likely to start after the middle of this year, says its director Lee Thean-jeen. Speaking to Yahoo! Si...

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One of Kazakhstan’s highest state awards has been conferred on former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew for promoting ties between the two countries. Mr Lee was conferred the Order of Friendship by the Ambassador of Kazakhstan, Yerlan Baudarbek-Kozhatayev, at the Istana on Tuesday. The amb...

Playing the broken record again. CNA , with video: Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has called for the understanding of Singaporeans towards the government’s decision to continue taking in immigrants. Speaking at a Lunar New Year gathering in his constituency of Tanjong Pagar on Fr...

Lee Kuan Yew speaks up by letter. No public appearances lately? Today : I listened to several of the speeches in Parliament on ministerial salaries and read the rest in the newspapers. With a different generation, political attitudes change. But for Singapore, the basic challenge rema...

The Hard Truths and Islam controversy hasn’t quite died down yet. Now the book is banned in Malaysia, or is it? AsiaOne : The Department of Islamic Development of Malaysia (Jakim) has not banned a book by former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew that allegedly offends Muslims. Min...

Singapore’s real strategy for success is multilingualism, and not exclusively Chinese Mother-tongue bilingualism, which over the past four decades have eroded the richness of local ethnic Chinese cultural forms. Chinese bilingualism in Singapore is a purely political gesture to create...

Yet another book from Lee Kuan Yew. What appears to be a cut’n'pasted press release at AsiaOne : The book, My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore’s Bilingual Journey, is published in separate but similar Chinese and English editions. The 400-page Chinese edition is by Lianhe Zaobao and the ...

Wall Street Journal on the limited impact of Lee Kuan Yew’s illness: News that Singapore’s first and longest-serving Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, is suffering from a neurological problem affecting his ability to walk is the latest reminder of the generational shift under way in the S...

Lee Kuan Yew follows up on his daughter’s disclosure of his condition. Today : Speaking to reporters, who asked for his comments on the news, Mr Lee said: “We learn to adjust. It started two years ago when I was 86. And at 86, many of my contemporaries are either on wheelchairs or are...

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Western human rights organisations must be rolling over furiously on their bed of staunch principles. They so hated his control over the opposition and dissent. But Singapore, under Lee, never much cared for what rights ideologues thought. Singaporeans did it their own way: They wante...

Title says it all. Straits Times : A French version of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s memoirs was launched in Paris this week, the latest foreign-language edition of The Singapore Story to be printed and sold. An initial print run of 2,500 copies of the two-volume memoirs, docum...

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Lee Kuan Yew gets a medal in the US. AsiaOne : Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was presented with the Lincoln Medal, an award which honours those whose accomplishments exemplify the legacy of America’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Mr Lee is the first Asian to receive the annual...

Lee Kuan Yew Leaves People’s Action Party’s Central Executive Committee 07Oct11 “Comrade” Lee Kuan Yew and much of the old guard resign from the PAP CEC. PAP : At today’s meeting, the PAP CEC accepted the resignation of six of its members who proposed to step down to facilitate leader...

Analysis of Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew, intended for an audience not already familiar with the topic. Foreign Affairs : Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s storied first prime minister, gave his countrymen two things that elude most developing nations: stability and prosperity. Now, a new gen...

Lee Kuan Yew changes his mind about the election results. CNA : Singapore’s former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew does not think a more populist form of government would have to emerge as a result of the general election in May. Replying to questions on Singapore’s political scene at th...

More from the Singapore Global Dialogue. CNA, with video : Singapore’s former minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said it is unlikely that Singapore and Malaysia will merge in the future. … “Najib has brought forth a positive view of bilateral relations and the desire to develop southern Joh...

Lee Kuan Yew has a dialogue with students. Article and partial transcript at TODAY: Even as he acknowledged that a political divide “has already happened” in Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew warned that this must not lead to a divided society because that will hit the Republic’s performance...

One person we did not hear from at all through this campaign was Lee Kuan Yew. Had he been muzzled? Or was he more furious with his own PAP and its preferred candidate than the other contestants? This was the second election in a row in which the PAP failed to set the agenda, somethin...

A professor at NUS does a survey that’s studiously ignored by the government media. AP via Winnipeg Free Press : Fewer Singaporeans consider the ruling People’s Action Party to be credible after the party’s worst election results since independence, a survey showed Friday. … Perhaps t...

Lee Kuan Yew joins his own school. CNA : Mr Lee Kuan Yew is joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore as a Distinguished Fellow. A statement said both the school and the university are delighted that there will be opportunities for studen...

Lee Kuan Yew interviewed, although apparently only via a “written statement”, with softball questions and answers. Asahi Shimbun : Question: Do you think Japan will emerge from this period of enormous challenge stronger or weaker? Lee: Stronger as a united people, but weaker in its ec...

Novelist and columnist Catherine Lim on Lee Kuan Yew’s resignation. Catherine Lim : Indeed, the nations’ shock on 14 May, just a week after the election, at the resignation of MM from the cabinet (together with Mr Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister) could only be described as seismic in t...

We have studied the new political situation and thought how it can affect the future. We have made our contributions to the development of Singapore. The time has come for a younger generation to carry Singapore forward in a more difficult and complex situation. The Prime Minister and...

Lee Kuan Yew urges the government trade union monopoly to pretend to care more about workers. CNA, with video : The minister mentor told his audience that throughout his political career, he has always been mindful of the interests of workers and their unions. He said: “In government,...

With the opposition gaining seats in the general election, Lee Kuan Yew complains about the ungratefulness of youth. ST : MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew gave his first – albeit indirect – assessment of the 2011 general election result on Sunday, remarking at a community event in Tanglin...